Chapter 2: Achievement of CfE levels by SIMD

Pupils from the least deprived areas performed better
than pupils from the most deprived areas at all stages, in all
four organisers of reading, writing, listening and talking and
numeracy.

Within Primary schools, the largest gap was at P7 in
writing (22 percentage points); with the smallest gap at P1 in
listening and talking (12 percentage points).

At S3, the largest gap was in numeracy performance at
15 percentage points.

Across all stages, the percentage of pupils achieving the
expected
CfE level
increased as the level of deprivation decreased.

Chart 2.1 shows that the smallest performance gaps were reported
for S3, where the gap between least and most deprived pupils
achieving Third Level or better was 11 percentage points for
reading and listening and talking; 12 for writing and 15 for
numeracy. The largest performance gap was reported for P7 pupils,
with the largest in writing at 22 percentage points.